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Mozilla's Ubiquity For Firefox Alpha 0.1 Looks Fantastic
Posted by Nick Broughall at 9:19 AM on August 29, 2008
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of being able to embed maps in your emails easily, or just how awkward it can be to share information online? Well you may want to check out the prototype software from Mozilla Labs called Ubiquity.
It is in its very early development stages, more prototype than anything else, but even so it looks like it has the potential to completely change the way we interact with our information online.
As you can see from the video, Ubiquity lets you easily do everything from embed maps and web-based reviews into the body of your email quickly and easily, share information (over email, IM or Twitter) painlessly and even add new features to it with a minimum of effort.
You can download it for yourself here (it requires Firefox). Let us know what you think.
[Ubiquity - Thanks Drew!]
Comments
Steve
Posted August 29, 2008 1:40 PM
This looks fantastic - getting it now. I do think, however, that like most fantastic operation assisting programs general users will only realise or be able to comprehend about 10% of what its actually capable of, but surely this will usher in a new Web 4.0 or whatever we're up to now.
StevoTheDevo
Posted August 29, 2008 3:33 PM
I can see how powerful it is but getting it workable for genreal users will be the harder part. Even for me, a computer savvy person but fairly coding illiterate user, I imagine the setup process to tell Ubiquity that you use gmail for example (and what your user/pass is) to be fairly complicated and time consuming.
mr-crash
Posted August 29, 2008 4:44 PM
This reminds me of launchy (for windows) or quicksilver (for OSX) - except instead of working with shortcuts and applications that are on your computer, it interacts with websites and applications that are out there on the net.
I agree with StevoTheDevo, the set up (when it gets larger - not so much now) will probably be a little complex... But if they can get past this it has the potential to be fantastic. I think i'll download it now too!